The Louisville UnFair

LOCAL ART × MUSIC × BOOZE × NOT ST.JAMES

The UnFair annually provides attendees with alternative and affordable local art.

Founded in 1997 by Paul Harshaw and Greg Edwards, the annual UnFair Art Show is an institution in Old Louisville. Each year, thousands of art lovers come out to mingle among friends and imbibe vast quantities of beer and spirits all while music and creativity fills the air. All art is local, affordable and ready-to-buy.

Traditionally, the Unfair embraces vice and subversiveness. It is an art show, for locals by locals that strives to exemplify Louisville culture during the behemoth St. James Court Art Show a block up the street. The eclectic mix of creative minds that participate include a wide variety of styles and techniques.

Another UnFair comes to an end. Sure, the weather acted like a little bitch on Friday and Saturday, but god damn it, Sunday was fucking perfect. Thanks to everyone who came out to spend some time with us over the weekend. We always appreciate your support. After all the profanity, frustration and tears... hard work pays off and it makes sense why we keep doing this. Thank so much for partying with us. Let's do it again next year.

The UnFair Artists, along with some of other local artist friends, are donating art that will be raffled off this weekend to help benefit Liz, Beenee and their family as they face the physical and emotional challenge of chemotherapy. These are UnFair's dearest friends. They are family.

Here's the official poster for this year's UnFair! This year's poster was designed and printed by UnFair artist Nick Knight. The poster will be on sale at this year's UnFair as a six color, hand-pulled screen print, each signed and numbered by the artist. Lots of other amazing local art will be on hand as a couple dozen of your favorite artists from around the Louisville area set up shop at this annual event, hosted by the good folks at the Magnolia Bar.

Kentucky's bootlegging heritage is the focus and inspiration of the collection of work that makes up Vinnie Kochert's Moonshine art show. Beautifully displayed at Revelry Boutique Gallery, Vinnie's hand-cut, stencil designs capture a sense of pride and the personal heartbreak born of prohibition and the moonshine industry that emerged from it.

This is a short excerpt from Clay Sisk's Pages, Panels and Beyond, featuring Louisville UnFair artist Yoko Molotov. The full documentary, which can be viewed here, takes a look at the comic book culture in Louisville, Kentucky and allows local artists to share their inspirations and philosophies towards the craft of making comic book art.

UnFair artists Damon Thompson and Jeremy Slaven were featured on WDRB on March 15, 2015 in a story highlighting Gallopalooza in Louisville, KY. Gallopalooza is one of Louisville’s favorite and most visible public art projects. The series features brightly painted, life-size horse statues all over the city.

Over the weekend, in celebration of Friday the 13, our friends at Liberty Tattoo & Art Parlor featured 13 original drawing by local bike mechanic and artist, Jimmy Flaherty. The show's opening on Friday invited guests to come checkout the artwork, drink a couple beers and to get Jimmy's artwork tattooed on their bodies... permanently. We got a chance to talk to Jimmy at the show and wanted to share our conversation with you here.

You can now reach out and electronically fondle UnFair like never before. Welcome to the official Louisville UnFair website. Outside Facebook, the UnFair has never existed online, so this is a pretty big deal to us. We're also breaking out of our normal comfort zone and expanding our social media reach onto Twitter and Instagram. This should be fun.

You can check back here for the latest news and updates about UnFair leading up to the big weekend in October. We're also going to feature all sorts of stuff including...